Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that the Thomas A. Kooyumjian Family Foundation has made a donation of $100,000 in January of 2019 to the Kooyumjian Endowed Scholarship Fund at Fresno State. Together with previous donations from the Family Foundation, the Endowed Scholarship has reached $250,000. Thomas A. Kooyumjian passed away in 1985 and his ...

Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that the Leon S. Peters Foundation has continued their generous support of the Armenian Studies Program with a grant of $30,000 for 2019. Their support for the Program over the past seven years has reached over $200,000.  This continues the tradition of the Peters Foundation in supporting the Armenian ...

Arshak Abelyan Staff Writer              From the violent streets of Beirut to the places he called his home, Armenia and Fresno, Paul Chaderjian’s new novel Letters to Barbra reveals the beauty and tragedy in life. Chaderjian’s grandparents were Armenian Genocide survivors who settled in Beirut and thus, he experienced the Civil War in Lebanon. Chaderjian discussed his new novel at a ...